# 1957 in China

Events in the year 1957 in China. The country had an estimated population of 635 million people.

## Incumbents

* Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong
* President of the People's Republic of China: Mao Zedong
* Premier of the People's Republic of China: Zhou Enlai
* Chairman of the National People's Congress: Liu Shaoqi
* Vice President of the People's Republic of China: Zhu De
* Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China: Chen Yun

### Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province: Huang Yan
* Governor of Fujian Province: Ye Fei
* Governor of Gansu Province: Deng Baoshan
* Governor of Guangdong Province: Tao Zhu (until August), Chen Yu (starting August)
* Governor of Guizhou Province: Zhou Lin
* Governor of Hebei Province: Lin Tie
* Governor of Heilongjiang Province: Ouyang Qin
* Governor of Henan Province: Wu Zhipu
* Governor of Hubei Province: Zhang Tixue
* Governor of Hunan Province: Cheng Qian
* Governor of Jiangsu Province: Hui Yuyu
* Governor of Jiangxi Province: Shao Shiping
* Governor of Jilin Province: Li Youwen
* Governor of Liaoning Province: Du Zheheng
* Governor of Qinghai Province: Sun Zuobin
* Governor of Shaanxi Province: Zhao Shoushan
* Governor of Shandong Province: Zhao Jianmin
* Governor of Shanxi Province: Wang Shiying
* Governor of Sichuan Province: Li Dazhang
* Governor of Yunnan Province: Guo Yingqiu
* Governor of Zhejiang Province: Sha Wenhan (until November), Huo Shilian (starting November)

## Events

* End of the Hundred Flowers Campaign
* Start of the Anti-Rightist Movement
* Establishment of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology
* Continuing Kuomintang Islamic insurgency in China
* Promotion of the Five Goods Movement
* The Asian Flu killed around 1-2 million pe ple in China and Hong Kong.
* Official Soviet visit by Kliment Voroshilov Photo of the two leaders

### Other events

* January 1 — Opening of Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport, in Jianggan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, to civil flights.
* October 15 — Opening of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, in Wuhan, Hubei
* Establishments:
** Gaoming Prison, in Gaoming District, Foshan City, Guangdong
** Henan Experimental Middle School, in Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, Henan
** Lujiang Prison, in Chaohu City, Anhui

## Births
### January

* January 1 — Qiu He, politician who spent his career in Jiangsu and Yunnan
* January 13 — Fernando Chui, 2nd Chief Executive of Macau
* January 14 — Anchee Min, Chinese American author
* Li Jiheng, 10th Minister of Civil Affairs

### March

* March 8 — Zhao Leji, 11th Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress

### April

* April 19 — Ge You, actor

### May

* He Weidong, general of the People's Liberation Army

### June

* June 7 — Hou Yu-ih, Taiwanese politician and former police officer
* June 12 — Ho Iat Seng, 3rd Chief Executive of Macau
* June 15 — Zhang Tielin, Chinese-British actor and film director
* June 22 — Lau Kong-wah, former Hong Kong government official

### July

* July 25 — Alex Man, Hong Kong actor
* July 26 — Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor, martial artist and stuntman
* Losang Jamcan, 9th Chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region

### August

* August 1
** Jiang Chaoliang, 13th Secretary of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
** Xu Haifeng, pistol shooter
* August 18 — Tan Dun, Chinese-American composer and conductor
* August 26 — Yan Weiwen, contemporary opera singer

### September

* September 8 — Fang Shu, film actress
* Tie Ning, author

### October

* October 2 — Zhao Benshan, skit and sitcom actor, comedian, television director and businessman
* October 19 — Zhang Yu, actress
* October 20 — Gong Hanlin, actor, xiangsheng performer and sketch performer
* October 22 — Deng Jie, actress and producer

### November

* November 11 — He Lin, engineer and a major general of the People's Liberation Army
* November 17 — Ying Yong, 11th Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate
* Wang Ying, actor (d. 2024)
* Wang Yaonan, scientist

### December

* December 1 — Wang Anshun, 16th Mayor of Beijing
* December 6 — Feng Gong, actor, xiangsheng performer, director, screenwriter and politician
* December 7 — John Lee Ka-chiu, 5th Chief Executive of Hong Kong
* December 12 — Gu Changwei, cinematographer and film director

### Dates unknown

* Zhu Guohua, criminal and a grandson of Zhu De (d. 1983)

## Deaths

* August 18 — Zhang Shuqi, painter from Zhejiang (b. 1900)
* September 16 — Qi Baishi, painter (b. 1864)
* September 22 — Zhou Xuan, singer and film actress (b. 1920)
* October 7 — Yang Gang, journalist, novelist and translator (b. 1905)
* October 9 — Lü Simian, historian (b. 1884)